Chapter 18: The Order of Pursuit and Kill

  Seeing He Ran's gentle smile as he was about to leave, Li Yingying's already rosy face turned even redder, as if she were about to cry blood. The young girl couldn't hide her shyness and retreated back into the room.

  Huoran naturally didn't know the girl's heart, and walked straight to Jiu Ye's home, just in time to hear a young man called "Tiger" say to Jiu Ye: "Jiu Ye, something big is wrong! That one-armed monster has come back to life!"

  Jiǔ yé's eyebrows slightly furrowed as he saw Huo Ran enter, and he nodded slightly before saying to Hǔ zǐ: "You'd better tell me what's going on!"

  "Hu Zi took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions and said: 'Just now I went to the back of the village for a stroll. When I passed by the place where we buried those three strange people yesterday, I saw that the soil had all been turned over, exposing the fat one and the thin one inside. But the one-armed monster was gone!'"

  "Impossible!" Hearing Hu Zi's words, Huo Ran's face was filled with disbelief, and he said: "Yesterday, both of us were at the Fourth Extreme Realm cultivation level. It's impossible for him to withstand my Blood Drop technique and not die, unless..." At this point, Huo Ran suddenly froze, and didn't continue speaking.

  "What else?" Jiū Yé discerned some clues and asked further.

  "Unless... he doesn't have a heart!" Huo Ran said word by word. The Blood Drop technique was very strange, equivalent to teleportation, using the power of blood vessels as a medium to transform the body into energy and pass through the opponent in a short period of time. In this instant, the fresh blood inside the opponent's body would be evaporated clean by this strange energy. In other words, if there is no heart or blood in the body, then one can survive under this move.

  Of course, if he had a heavy treasure on him, he could have resisted, but the key is, what kind of heavy treasure can a one-armed middle-aged man in the Four Extremes Realm carry? So Huo Ran would also determine from the start that the one-armed middle-aged man was impossible to survive.

  "Really?"

  Old Master Ji's eyebrows furrowed, pacing back and forth on the spot, half-closing his turbid old eyes, he said: "I once heard my grandfather say that in this world, apart from humans and the myriad of demon tribes, there is another peculiar race. They are extremely rare, to the point where not one appears even after tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of years. But this tribe is extraordinary, their bodies don't contain fresh blood!"

  "How is that possible!" Huo Ran's face was full of surprise, he really couldn't understand how it was possible for a living creature without blood to exist, a zombie? It seemed like zombies also had blood, right?!

  Jiu Ye simply shook his head and said, "I also can't understand, but it's precisely because this kind of creature is too unbelievable that since ancient times, whenever such a creature appears, it will be pursued and killed by the whole world without rest! Because someone once predicted that this clan would bring us disaster!"

  Upon hearing Jiu Ye's words, Huo Ran had no time to marvel at the wonders of creation and said: "Now we have no more guessing whether the one-armed middle-aged man is or not that mysterious race. The most urgent thing now is for everyone in the village to migrate collectively and leave this place!"

  Just as Huo Ran's words fell, Lao Hei rushed in and said unclearly: "We are living well here, why do we need to migrate?"

  Huoran and Jiuye both knew that Laohei's brain wasn't working well, so neither of them spoke up. However, Huoran was waiting for Jiuye to speak. It was clear that the old man was nostalgic and unwilling to leave this place where his ancestors had lived for generations.

  But if you don't leave, what if the one-armed middle-aged man finds a powerful helper and can't resist? Can't the whole village be buried here?

  After a long time, the Ninth Master took a deep breath and said to Old Black: "Tell everyone to gather their belongings and prepare to leave." Seeing Old Black's unwilling expression, the Ninth Master kicked him in anger and shouted: "What are you still dawdling for? Hurry up!"

  "Oh..."

  The first time seeing Jiu Ye get angry, Lao Hei only felt a chill down his spine and hastily retreated to inform the villagers to gather their belongings.

  Half an hour later, all the villagers gathered at the village entrance. With a loud command from Master Jiu, the crowd surged forward in a mighty wave towards the south. According to Master Jiu, their ancestors had found a hidden place thousands of miles away in the south, and that was where they were headed this time!

  "Really, brother!" Li Yingying's face turned bright red as she was led by the hand by Huo Ran, and she asked timidly: "Why do we have to leave the village?"

  "Because those bad guys will come again yesterday, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, we have to go to another place to settle down." Huo Ran smiled and replied. Since temporarily suppressing the cold air in Li Yingying's body, Li Yingying has become much more cheerful, almost like her peers.

  Not good, the cold air in Li Yingying's body has only been temporarily suppressed, not completely eradicated! As long as next year at this time, she will still be invaded by cold air, and more fiercely than this time! If there is no external object, she will not be able to survive.

  "Oh no......" Suddenly, Li Yingying exclaimed: "What if we go to a new place, how will Brother find me when he comes back? He won't be able to find me and will definitely be very anxious!"

  The girl's innocence left Huo Ran momentarily at a loss. The guilt of deceiving a thirteen-year-old girl almost suffocated him, and several times he wanted to tell this elf-like girl that her brother was actually dead, and had died at the hands of his own savior!

  He could imagine how the scene would be like when Li Yingying knew the truth, so he once again suppressed his thoughts of revealing the truth.

  "But brother, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you speaking?" Seeing He Ran's silence and his changing expression, Li Yingying asked with a flutter of her lively eyes.

  "Don't worry!" Huo Ran smiled lightly and gently stroked her small nose, saying: "Rest assured, when the time comes, I'll tell your brother about it, and I'll take him with me to see you!"

  "Really?" Li Yingying's face was innocent, her eyes filled with joyful colors. Having been separated from her brother for three years, she really missed her dear brother and almost every night dreamed of his face... However, after a long time without getting any guarantee from Huo Ran, she couldn't help but lift up her small face, just in time to see Huo Ran's increasingly solemn expression.

  Here! Huo Ran's heart skipped a beat, and he let go of Li Yingying's hand, shouting at the people of Tian Gan Village: "They're here, I'll hold them off first, you guys hurry up and leave!"

  "Huo Xiao Brothers..."

  Lao Hei was about to refuse, but was given a chestnut by Jiu Ye, and then heard Jiu Ye's voice: "We'll wait for you at the giant stone that looks like a dragon or tiger three thousand miles away. Take care!" With that, he pulled Li Yingying, who refused to move, and led the crowd southward.

  "Be careful, brother, I'll be waiting for you there!" Li Yingying cried with tears streaming down her face, looking back three times with every step.

  Huoran didn't say a word, and in his hand appeared a golden greatsword, standing upright as if an eternal war god.

  Hiss...

  A streak of light flashed rapidly and landed three feet in front of Huo Ran with a loud "thud", even causing the ground to tremble slightly.

  After the light faded away, a familiar face appeared before Horan's eyes.

  "River Uncle?!"

  The newcomer was Muhe, the doorman of the Mu family. In a few days, Muhe had not changed at all, and he looked at Huoran with half-closed eyes, saying: "Only three days have passed, you not only broke through your own shackles but also cultivated to the Five Elements Realm. It seems that you really did cultivate the Blood God Scripture."

  Listening to Muhe's words that were bland to the extreme, Huo Ran's heart was like a knife cut, and he said in a low voice: "Are you here to kill me?"

  If it were someone else, Huo Ran would never have been so resolute, but... Mu He had always been like an elder to him, and everything he learned in this unfamiliar world, except for the Blood God Scripture and the Heaven and Earth Diagram, came from the person standing before him with a face as calm as still water.

  "Yes!" Muhe seemed to have not detected the respect in Huoran's words and said lightly: "This time it's not just me, nor is it just the Mu family. The four major powers have jointly issued a wanted order. Whoever encounters you and reports your whereabouts will receive 100 Numinous Spirit Essences. If they bring you back to any of the major powers, they will receive the opportunity to be personally guided by the leader in their cultivation for 100 years and will be protected for life!"

  When he heard the specific content of the four major forces' wanted order for himself, Huo Ran sneered and said: "I'm really worth a lot, I'm afraid no one can resist this temptation!" He paused for a moment, then looked at Shang Muhuo's eyes without any emotional fluctuations, and said: "Are you too?"

  "Yes!"